Essays on Cold War

The cold war was a rivalry between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US). During the World War II, the US and USSR were allies, with the plan to defeat the Nazi Germany. In 1945, there was a meeting held in Yalta (Soviet Union) of three of the main leaders…

The Cold War was a “state of tension, hostility, competition and conflict” which characterised Soviet-Western and Soviet-American relations for much of the post-war period (Roberts, 1999: 2). For forty five years, the Cold War was the focal point of world politics, and not only affected American and Soviet institutions, but “the foreign policy and domestic…

Gladdis argues that the conflicts of the Cold War were not the sole responsibility of one side but rather the result of an overabundance of diverging concerns between the two superpowers, that pushed domestic politics and bureaucratic lethargy. While Gaddis does hold the Soviets marginally more liable for the obstacles. He argued that Stalin’s Western…

Communism is one of the most influential political ideologies of all time. Through recognising its influence, we can gain a further understanding of the significance of the role communism played in the development of the Cold War. The Cold War (1947-1991) was a 44-year battle between the U.S and the Soviet union over the Americans…

The Cold War refers to a period of hostility and tension between the Soviet Bloc and Western powers that began soon after World War two. The United States and USSR divided the world in two, creating a conflict between the two ideologies; communism and capitalism. The Cold War is characterised by the fact that the…

The Cold war referred to the ideological struggle between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies that lasted from 1945 to 1989. During which the two camps struggled to expand and consolidate their respective systems, the capitalist democracy and the communism. It’s characterized with ideological struggle and proxy states….

The cold war was a war which was more based on ideologies than having army engagements. This was a war between the dominant world powers after the world war II, the Soviet Union and United States. This was a bit shocking because these two dominant powers were beforehand allies in the WWII. This rivalry became…

After the WW II, the United States and the Soviet union competed for political domination, until eventually the “Soviet military forces occupied all of eastern Europe and the Balkans, while the U.S and other allied forces secured the western part of the continent’ (Duiker). The U.S had a vision of creating a democratic government that…

Russia had the largest part of the Soviet Union. Through most of the final half of the 20th Century, the United States and the Soviet Union (known also as the USSR) were the principal actors in an epic battle, referred to as a Cold War, for global domination. Cold War was a state of extreme…

The saying, “Like what you do, and then you will do your best” holds true for one particular woman who worked for NASA during all of the Apollo trials and the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Katherine Johnson is a resilient and brave African American that worked nonstop to prove…